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WIRE FABRIG AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME.

No. 415,673. Patented Nov. 19, 1889.-

UNITED STATES PATENT ()EEIcE.

ISRAEL KINNEY, OF BRANTFORD, ONTARIO, CANADA.

WIRE FABRIC AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,673, dated November19, 1889..

Application filed August 9, 1889. Serial No. 320,295. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ISRAEL KINNEY, a subject'of the Queen of GreatBritain, residing at Brantford, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in \Vire Fabrics and Methodof Making the Same, of which the following is a specification.

Fabrics of wire have heretofore been made having a general appearancesimilar to mine; but the manner in which the fabric is made up andpressed is such that a loose fabric is produced.

The object of my invention is to so make up the fabric that the wiresthereof shall be tight, but at the same time permit more or lessflexibility of the fabric.

To this end my invention consists, essentially, in combining one coil ofwire with another-one at a timeby first pressing or flattening down asingle coil, and into the series of small loops thus formed I runanother coil and press or flatten it down, and so on until the desiredwidth of fabric is obtained. This makes a tight fabric, and it cannot bemade by flattening all the coils together, or in any other way. Theloops are all reversed from those where the coils are all flattened downtogether.

In order that my invention may be fully understood, I will proceed todescribe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure I represents the first coil of wire flattened down and itscontiguous coil in place ready to be flattened down. Fig. II representsthe completed fabric. Fig. III

represents a fabric made after my invention, having each loop twisted.Fig. IV represents a fabric, as in Fig. III, having a stiffening rail orstrip. Fig. V is a plan view of the stiffening-strip.

In carrying out my invention, a coil of wire such as a is taken. This isflattened down, producing elliptical loops 1). Another coil of wire a isrun through the loops 1), as shown in Fig. I, and this is flatteneddown, also producing loops 1). This operation is repeated until thedesired width of fabric is obtained, as shown in Fig. II. Following thecourse of a length of wire, all being alike, beginning at the left-handend of the upper coil in Fig. II, it will be seen that the wire passesunder its own length, then over the connecting parts of the loops of thecontiguous flattened coil, then under the same, and then over its ownlength, thus interlocking the wires together tightly. In Fig. III I haveshown a twist in the neck of each loop made before the contiguous coilis run through. In both the forms shown in Figs. II and III it will beobserved, following the length of each strand or wire, that each jointor crossing made by its own loops is the reverse of its predecessort'.6., the wire that crossed under at one joint crosses over at the nextjoint.

In Fig. IV is shown a stiffening rail or strip of metal cl, havinglongitudinal slots 6, as shown in Fig. V, into which the loops of one ofthe flattened coils are introduced before another coil is run throughsaid loops. This strip may also be used with the form shown in Fig. II.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The method of making wire fabric,which consists in flattening down acoil of wire, running another coil of wire through the loops produced bythe flattening, and then flattening it down, and so on until the desiredwidth of fabric is built up, as explained.

2. A wire fabric consisting of an interlocking series of wires havingloops, the crossings of each wire at its own loops beginning from oneend and in succession being the reverse one of the other, substantiallyas set forth.

3. A wire fabric consisting of a series of interlocked wires havingloops with twisted necks, substantially as set forth.

at. A wire fabric consisting of a series of interlocked wires havingloops, and a stiifening-strip having openings through which the loops ofone of the wires are introduced, substantially as set forth.

ISRAEL KINNEY.

Witnesses M. F. MUIR,

PETER PURvEs.

